A New Beginning

I posted this internally at Guidewire today in response to a "meta-analysis of empirical studies done on analyzing the effectiveness o...

This person posted a blog with the following content, then posted another blog saying he just deleted it and made the apology. Several week...

Something hilarious: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4SDQu7Izrk And something useful: http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/energy-environment-2...

I have got quite a few good feedback from Brian who is using it ('in anger'!) at Guidewire. So I am putting together a 1.2 release,...

I finally run into WebGen today when checking out rSpec . So far by the look of it, it is exactly what I have been looking for for the las...

It is finally over. Julian and I have been working hard on this experience paper for agile 2007, and I have just come back from the trip to...

Think this article by Martin Fowler , probably most quoted, is the first one talking about this concept? Well, then we were both wrong, bec...

I have heard tons of insane software development project stories, and this one beats all of them added up... I only hope the story is not tr...

Two of my favorite companies from down under is now one. I love it. Atlassian taught me that wiki can be cool and professional, and that Bu...

IDE Showdown - Evangelists duke it out at Cologne JUG My hats off for organizing this meeting. However, based on the conclusion that the ar...

When someone took the time and write a tutorial like this , the least that I should do is to read it through and learn it to show my respect...

I have found this Yak Shaving to be true in many occasions, especially when starting the BuildMaster project . I think that is why Agile de...

Julian sent me this link, " Really Bad Powerpoint ", as a guideline as we are developing our presentation for the Agile 2007. I do...

It just so happened that two day after I was impressed with Firefox' good interaction design , I was utterly annoyed by the installing p...

This is a nice article that covers the topic very well. Stub, Mock , etc., are all part of the test double. Pay attention to the very first...

I was very delighted to discover the "Recently closed tab" feature in firefox! If you accidentally close a tab, you can now recove...

There is a heated but surprisingly friendly discussion about Remote vs Collocated Team going on right now at Yahoo! agile-usability group ....

Busy with BuildMaster , selenium-ruby , and Entrance , I have not looked at rspec for a while. Until the Code Kata with rSpec we did at BayX...

I used to loath the singleton pattern, mostly because of the pain it has caused me whenever I take over some old code and try to write test ...

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=204677 The above link got passed around at Guidewire the other day. It reminded me of the...